Re: An Industry Out Of Control

These companies are responsible for keeping me sane. I owe my life to them. They can push these things at candy stores if it helps them to subsidize the costs of R&D for psychosis for all I care.

> Ridiculous. To be fair, psychiatry has always been about the "medicalization of deviance." I know. I was called narcissistic for being a stressed out, drugged up gay dude. > > I don't think you can look at psychiatry without looking at society as a whole. As we've moved away from morality and shared values to a sort of pseudo-scientific, seemingly rational way of looking at things, mental illness has become more important because it provides a (seemingly) reasonable explanation for behavior. They're not bad--they're mad. That sort of thing. > >